Burckhardt
Americannoun
noun
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The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Katz had met Denby through the filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
Taylor, Denby and O’Hara all appear in Katz’s portraits; likewise the poets Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman and Ted Berrigan; the filmmaker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt; and the dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2022
As the historian Jacob Burckhardt would write, “Italy began to swarm with individuality; the ban laid upon human personality was dissolved.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2021
While Burnet was preparing the lather, Major Burckhardt, his thick neck swathed with a snowy napkin, looked up at the ceiling, and discoursed of many things.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
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